National Organization for Women (NOW) first ever, Virtual Chapter called Young Feminists and Allies (YFA).
Our purpose is to help bring young women, men and non-gender-conforming individuals into feminist activism and give a greater voice to young feminists, who feel underrepresented at times. We also want to work with our allies of ALL AGES to foster an intergenerational exchange. We want YOU—feminists of ALL AGES, to join us.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Mon, March 10: Women & Religion talk at Barnard, NY

By looking at historical material from 19th-century France, Joan Scott shows that secularization was not synonymous with women's emancipation, but with the articulation of new justifications for their exclusion from male public worlds. This is an important point to make these days because the word secularism is bandied about loosely in public debate, with little attention to its variable and complex history. Especially in discussions of Islam and its treatment of women, the secular, the modern, and sexual liberation are touted as the "primordial values" of progressive, democratic states while the religious, the traditional, and the subordination of women designate arenas of authoritarian backwardness. Scott's work on the secular side seeks to challenge that simple opposition, arguing—as historians are wont to do—that things are more complicated than these Manichean characterizations suggest. Joan Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study.